PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



VOL. 21 APRIL, 1919 No. I 



CAPTAIN ALLAN HINSON JENNINGS. 

 BY W. D WIGHT PIERCE, AUGUST BUSCK AND ADAM G. BOVING. 



The many associates and friends of Captain Jennings were 

 shocked by the news of his sudden death from accident on Decem- 

 ber 16, 1918, at Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Many 

 of us had seen him only a few days before while he was on a short 

 business trip north. He had returned to camp and received 

 orders to proceed to Hoboken for special duty. His baggage 

 had already been sent to the station and he had said farewell to 

 most of his officer friends. He was speaking to some one in an 

 automobile and when through stepped backward across the road 

 in the path of a camp ambulance. He was run over and sus- 

 tained severe injuries. He was very brave about it and took the 

 entire blame for the accident. His usual courage and philosophy 

 kept him up throughout all the examinations, but in the after- 

 noon he lost consciousness and died after about seventy-two 

 hours. Captain Jenning's papers ordering him to France were 

 signed the day his body passed through Washington. 



Allan Hinson Jennings was born in Maryland, November 9, 

 18(56. His early education was received in private schools at 

 Baltimore, Maryland. During 1886 and 1SS7 he was a special 

 student in the Marine Biological Laboratory of Johns Hopkins 

 University and made studies of marine biology, entomology and 

 ornithology in the Bahama Islands. In 1888 he rendered volun- 

 teer service in the Division of Birds of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion. In 1905 he spent six months in the Division of Paleontology 

 of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, 

 studying the taxonomy, biology and evolution of the living 

 species of horses, asses and zebras, as well as the ancient dispersion 

 and present distribution of the group. This work was done 

 under Prof. H. F. Osborne and Dr. W. K. Gregory. 



For several years he practiced agriculture on his own farm near 

 Chesapeake Beach, Maryland. He devoted much time to study 

 and travel within the United States, with zoology as the main 

 object, forming a considerable collection of birds, fishes and 

 invertebrates. 



From November 1906 to July 1911, he was Entomologist of the- 

 Department of Sanitation of the Isthmian Canal Commission. 



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